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Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:30:42 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1664The world citizen
considers himself no less a patriot for taking on matters outside of his
country than a son is any less a son for having interests outside his father’s
household.

“Citizen of the World” broadcast July 10, 1949 on CBS

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Sun, 10 Mar 2019 01:29:36 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1662Henceforward we must
do a little civil thinking every day

And not pass up the
front page for the sports page as we did before.

Vigilance pays
interest and compounds into peace.

“On A Note Of Triumph”
broadcast May 8, 1945 on CBS

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Sun, 03 Mar 2019 01:28:24 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1660The due rank of peace
is proudest of all earthly dignities. Perhaps in the new millennium our sons
and daughters can learn to enjoy that pride, and to live by it.

“Memos To A New Millennium,” broadcast December 31, 1999 on NPR

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Sun, 24 Feb 2019 01:26:44 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1658From the very
beginning, when our ancestors breathed through gills, hasn’t every waggle,every thrust, every inch plodded, every
proliferating cell in our pedigrees, been in response to Challenge?

What are the odds that we’re not
through growing?

What are the odds that maybe we’re
just getting started?

“Memos to a New Millennium” broadcast December 31, 1999 on NPR

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Sun, 17 Feb 2019 01:24:57 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1656One of the ironies
among the uncoded prescripts of moral justice is that greed, which constantly
seeks increase and is rarely content with abundance, ends up by decreasing the
greedy. Both men and nations trivialize themselves by lusting so hard for
power, gold, possessions or advantage, that their intellect and spirit become
blunted, there is no longer joy in the game, and ultimately they have nowhere
to go but down.

“Reduction by Greed ” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983)

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Sun, 10 Feb 2019 01:24:03 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1654Orthodoxy, sacred as
it may be to subscribing theologians, is the fast friend of mediocrity, since
it removes incentive to think. An army is a model of orthodoxy; it is made up
mostly of bodies which act on command; whatever thinking is necessary to its
functions is done for it. The same applies to communicants of all fanatical
religious and social orders.

“Mediocrity ” from the
book “Trivializing America” (1983)

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Sun, 03 Feb 2019 01:21:35 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1652There is something
distracting about a phantom of delight who radiates sexuality, filling us in on
murder, rape, inflations, corruption, terror, bigotry, turpitude and sports.
Newscasting is not a beauty contest. Ghastly tidings delivered by Aphrodite, or
dispatches of grave import from an anchorman with a Barrymore profile and the
magnetism of a Valentino, tend to lose something in translation; they become an
effect. When pulchritude and sex appeal rate as prime ingredients in the
dissemination of news, journalism yields to showmanship.

“Give Us 22 Minutes . . .” from the book “Trivializing America” (1983)

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Sun, 27 Jan 2019 01:55:58 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1649Between what could be and what is are barbed wire and tank traps, walls, armed borders, reconnaissance patrols, old wounds and new suspicions, hatred, fear, corruption, ignorance, intolerance, cold war, threats of hot war, fallout, trouble compounded into trouble, for details of which consult your morning paper.

“Could Be” from the book Overkill and Megalove (1963) also the 1949 radio broadcast

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Sun, 20 Jan 2019 01:55:11 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1647There are no inexorable laws in art. The laws are made to be broken, creatively. And when there is an unvarying obedience to laws of that kind, you invite a kind of stagnation.

From the book, “Years of the Electric Ear” (1994)

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Sun, 13 Jan 2019 01:54:21 +0000http://www.normancorwin.com/?p=1645The military mind likes nothing better than a chance to experiment, to rehearse, test and prove new weapons under optimum conditions. The guinea pig in these experiments is always world peace, and the dispensable white rats and monkeys are you and me.

“Eternal Triangle of Sex, Art and the Establishment” from the book Holes in a Stained Glass Window (1978)